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Boxing is one of the oldest and most well-known combat sports.

Boxing was born as a self-defense sport, and appears to be the oldest personal means of defense in the world, as fists are the first instinct of man in self-defense. Known since the Bronze Age, it was practiced in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome;

Boxing is a challenging sport and complete, the physical qualities required are in fact speed, agility, strength and endurance. Boxing requires both aerobic and anaerobic efforts, therefore training aims both at improving endurance (through running, jumping rope, free-body training), and at improving strength and developing muscle mass;

Boxing requires the capacity to withstand fatigue and pain; but also character and constancy. Finally, timing: the right thing at the wrong time will prove to be counterproductive.

A boxing match takes place inside a square called ring, with only the two athletes and the referee inside. The two athletes will have their hands in special gloves protected inside them by bands and closed with the adhesive tape that if removed will mark the performance of the athlete.

Professional boxing does not need other protections if not mouth guards, while the more amateur one also has special helmets.

Unlike kickboxing or other disciplines developed during the boxing years, the only possible moves are the punches mainly of three types, direct uprights and hooks.

The matches are composed of 12 rounds of 5 min each, stopped only by a knockout or the fall of the opponent on the ground that if in 10 seconds he will not get up and he will say that he is willing to continue the match to the referee will lose the 'meeting.

The athletes are divided into 17 weight categories to balance the matches.

UFC 234 has probably given us one of the most intense nights of this early 2019 world MMA. Yes, because despite the injury of Robert Whittaker, middleweight champion another match was held worthy of being the main event.

The one between Israel Adesanya and Anderson Silva, the first at the height of his 29-year career while the second at the end of his career now aged 43 years.

This difference in age is seen a lot during the whole meeting, starting from the beginning with a Adesanya full of energy and explosives in the octagon that attacks and manages to easily avoid the few attacks received by Silva who with her age now advanced has struggled to get to the end of this match, in fact, these matches was not very high technically with a Silva very slow and listless and a sticking that was held not to humiliate Silva, one of his idols that with what was said from Israel himself "grew up".

In fact, because of the age of Silva who made this match felt, it was much more a show than a fight, with Silva's almost silly dodges without a guard and with defiant but ironic glances, and with Adesanya talking and joking with his opponent after some exchanges. With a completely expected ending that saw Israel Adesanya winner points and a final full of irony and respect from both fighters I immediately thought about how much the age and the time affect the sports and in particular the combat ones .

I immediately say that time in addition to his mind the only other factor that characterizes the longevity of a fighter, in fact if the physique just train it with effort, effort and perseverance and the mind must have it right away, develop a passion for the fight since childhood and have the goal of being the best that helps you in the training process, the age can not be regulated in any way, "the worst enemy of a man is himself" and with himself it also means the age that if you want or do not want it advances and advances it transforms you, and for how much you can try to keep fit or in activity it will never be like when you were younger, there are only 10 years of difference between the two wrestlers but in the mind of Anderson Silva it will seem centuries that make a huge difference in this sport.